Question 14160 — housing

Summary

Mr. Dominique Potier alerts the Minister to the Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities, responsible for cities and housing, about the weakening of the right to housing for the poorest people resulting from the law on the development of housing, development and digital technology (ELAN). Indeed, far from responding to their difficulties in accessing housing, certain measures of this law risk to increase them even further. Although it includes progress in the fight against slumlords and the supervision of tourist rentals, the ELAN law completely ignores the difficulties encountered by the most deprived in finding decent housing, particularly in view of the dismantling of the social housing stock that it establishes. The sale of 40,000 homes per year to compensate for the disengagement of the State and compensate for the cuts budgetary changes made by social landlords, combined with the weakening of the law relating to solidarity and urban renewal, is a real blow to access to housing for the poorest people, especially since the production objective of 40,000 very social housing units per year displayed by the “Housing First” plan is insufficient to compensate for these shortcomings. For most of the poorest people, the Social housing constitutes the only route to decent housing. However, even when a file is recognized as a priority under the enforceable right to housing (DALO), the allocation is a long process: 50,000 families deemed priority are thus waiting for housing, sometimes for several years. In a 2016 report, before the five-euro reduction in personalized housing assistance, the Court of Auditors estimated more than 220,000 the number of households for which social housing was structurally inaccessible. The latter, because they are too poor, are never offered housing or are ultimately refused by the landlords' allocation committees. On September 13, 2018, the President of the Republic announced, during the presentation of the strategy for preventing and combating poverty, that he wanted to eradicate extreme poverty. However, he It is not possible to escape poverty without housing, since the latter is the keystone of access to rights (education, access to work, self-esteem). Today in France, 900,000 people are deprived of personal housing, 1.5 million families are waiting for social housing and 2.7 million households find themselves in a situation of excessive effort, devoting more than 35% of their resources to housing. The model financial support for social housing, based on a high rent compensated by individual aid, is ineffective in the face of the urgency and importance of the challenge to be taken up. There is not only an urgent need to produce more social housing, but also to make it accessible to the poorest people, who find themselves excluded due to lack of sufficient resources. To fight against poverty and the weakening of the right to housing of the poorest, he therefore calls on it to change the financial model of social housing by using article 28 of the ELAN law to experiment with setting rents for social housing based on family income.

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